SINGAPORE, March 23 (Reuters) – Singapore’s key consumer price gauge rose 1.4% in February from a year earlier, official data showed on Monday.
The core inflation rate, which excludes private road transport and accommodation costs, was slightly higher than the median forecast of 1.3% in a Reuters poll of economists.
Headline inflation was 1.2% in annual terms in February, slightly lower than the poll forecast of 1.3%.
(Reporting by Xinghui Kok; Editing by John Mair and Martin Petty)
